Jeremy Piven

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Transylvania Mania hit Chicago on Tuesday when Broadway's original Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Roger Bart, put on the ritz in "Young Frankenstein" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. You might expect the man who played the creepy pharmacist in "Desperate Housewives" to be pretty creepy as a mad scientist type, but that's not the case. Bart was hilarious, charming, delightful and anything but creepy. Who knew? In other Broadway in Chicago news, "Million Dollar Quartet" will open on Broadway in April.

Oscar winner Cate Blanchett suffered a bleeding head wound when she was hit by a prop onstage Wednesday during a theater performance of "Streetcar Named Desire" in Sydney. The performance was canceled, but the 40-year-old Australian actress will return to the stage for Thursday's show, Sydney Theatre Company spokesman Tim McKeough said. ... The new touring version of Bartlett Sher's Lincoln Center production "South Pacific" is headed to the Rosemont Theatre for Thanksgiving week (Nov.

Evanston native Jeremy Piven says he hasn't had any fish in 11 months, and now he "feels like a different person." In an interview with Time magazine's Bryan Alexander and posted on time.com, Piven answers a handful of reader-submitted questions, including one about whether he was eating sushi. Last year, Piven bailed on the Broadway show "Speed-the-Plow"; Piven's doctor said the actor was suffering with extreme mercury toxicity and blamed the high levels of mercury on Piven's frequent sushi consumption and use of Chinese herbs.

By The Orlando Sentinel and REDEYE CONTRIBUTED. Additional reporting by JIM WALSH, REDEYE and Matt Pais | August 15, 2009

Jeremy Piven is big time. Like, really big time. The Chicago-area native has always been the character actor, the guy behind the guy whose name's above the credits. But not anymore. At 44, he's finally toplining his own movie -- "The Goods," which opened Friday. And he's counting on making a splash. "You apprentice a job, and then you get your shot," Piven said. "This is my shot, name above the title. None of this is lost on me." The three-time Emmy-winning star of HBO's "Entourage" is feeling the heat these days.

'The Goods' . 1/2 Sloppy, grimy but quick on its feet, which puts it ahead of certain other R-rated comedies ("The Hangover") we've seen this summer, "The Goods" stars Jeremy Piven, perpetually in fidgety weasel mode (separate from his weaselly fidget mode) as Don "The Goods" Ready, the swiftest shark in the used-car-selling business. The milieu may bring back fond memories of Robert Zemeckis' 1980 "Used Cars." To be clear: There's not a single shot in "The Goods," helmed by debut feature director Neal Brennan ("Chappelle's Show")

Actor Jeremy Piven's appearance at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards ceremony brought out the knives from observers who had been skeptical when he left a Broadway play in December citing mercury poisoning from eating too much sushi. "Perennial trophy winner Jeremy Piven, of HBO's 'Entourage,' had dragged himself from his mercury-poisoned Broadway deathbed to attend this year's Globes," wrote Lisa de Moraes of The Washington Post. But Piven, who lost to Tom Wilkinson in the contest for best supporting actor in a television series, miniseries or movie made for TV, defended himself to anyone who would listen.

Thanks to Jeremy Piven, the "sushi defense" may become as culturally notorious as Harvey Milk assassin Dan White's "Twinkie defense," though the Evanston-raised actor's offense merely was ditching the successful Broadway production of David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow." Most actors departing stage shows don't stir up nearly so much attention or scorn, but then again most actors don't cite extreme mercury toxicity, possibly from excessive sushi eating, as the reason. They also tend not to get served up so tastily by the playwright, as Mamet said of Piven: "My understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer."

Party-crasher Piven? Celebrity spotters at Britney Spears' circus-themed 27th birthday party Tuesday night spotted Jeremy Piven in the crowd -- but Piven says he was there by accident. "I'm really embarrassed -- I didn't know it was Britney's birthday party!" Piven told usmagazine.com Wednesday. "I think I was the one guy who didn't know," He said he went to Tenjune, a New York nightclub, "to say hello to someone" when he noticed the club was a circus -- literally, with jugglers and a man on stilts.

Local man Jeremy Piven, who won an Emmy for "Entourage" last year, is nominated again this year for his amazing scenery-shredding performance as uber-agent Ari Gold, but his special lady won't be with him. His mother, Joyce, who accompanied him to the Emmys the last two years, turned down an offer to join him on the red carpet, he told The Associated Press. "I think she said, 'Five times is enough,'" Piven said. ---------- Personals was compiled by Emily Rosenbaum from Tribune news services and staff reports.

By Tony Adler, a veteran arts writer who also co-founded and directed The Actors Gymnasium of Evanston | January 28, 2007

It's a weekday evening in October and Jeremy Piven is about to be interviewed onstage at Northwestern University's Pick-Staiger Concert Hall in Evanston. There's a problem, though: The Hall has only 1,003 seats. They're going to need a lot more than that to accommodate the crowd of students queued up outside. At about 15 minutes after the scheduled starting time of 8 p.m., someone comes onstage to beg our patience, telling us there's still "a few hundred people" out there waiting--or at least hoping--to get in. This wouldn't have happened 2 1/2 years ago, when Piven may very well have been the best-known unknown in show business.